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Menstrual Bodies and Gender
This book interrogates how the so-called “Feminine Care” industry travelled from the United States to Latin America via manufactured and disposable menstrual management technologies and certain narratives about menstrual bodies. The author focuses on Argentina as a case study to deepen the analysis of transnational politics and business practices around menstruation, drawing on women’s voices to unveil why menstruation is still a bodily process that is natural yet taboo in Latin America. This fascinating volume is a must-read for anyone interested in how the “Feminine Care” industry helped reify the insidious social mandate of shame and secrecy over women’s bodily experiences.
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.
The Managed Body
The Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observations and the digital materials of NGOs and social businesses, Bobel shows how MHM frames problems and solutions to capture attention and direct resources to this highly-tabooed topic. She asserts that MHM organizations often inadvertently re...
Unbridled Calling
How can a child born in the Russian Pale at the end of the 19th century become one of the most celebrated journalists in Latin America and a writer admired by Jorge Luis Borges? In this biography, Mónica Szurmuk, delves into the different aspects of the life of writer, journalist, and politician Alberto Gerchuinoff. Thoroughly researched in four different continents, this book is as much an account of the life of Alberto Gerchunoff, as an investigation into the Jewish world of the first half of the twentieth century, and the different spaces where Jewish and Latin American cultural and political life intersect.
Cash Flow
The menstrual product industry has played a large role in shaping the last hundred years of menstrual culture, from technological innovation to creative advertising, education in classrooms and as employers of thousands in factories around the world. How much do we know about this sector and how has it changed in later decades? What constitutes ‘the industry’, who works in it, and how is it adapting to the current menstrual equity movement? Cash Flow provides a new academic study of the menstrual corporate landscape that links its twentieth-century origins to the current ‘menstrual moment’. Drawing on a range of previously unexplored archival materials and interviews with industry insiders, each chapter examines one key company and brand: Saba in Norway, Essity in Sweden, Tambrands in the Soviet Union, Procter & Gamble in Britain and Europe, Kimberly-Clark in North America, and start-ups Clue and Thinx. By engaging with these corporate collections, the book highlights how the industry has survived as its consumers continually change.
Surviving State Terror
Honorable Mention, 2019 Distinguished Book Award, given by the Sex & Gender Section of the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2019 Marysa Navarro Book Prize, given by the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS) A profound reflection on state violence and women’s survival In the 1970s and early 80s, military and security forces in Argentina hunted down, tortured, imprisoned, and in many cases, murdered political activists, student organizers, labor unionists, leftist guerrillas, and other people branded “subversives.” This period was characterized by massive human rights violations, including forced disappearances committed in the name of national securi...
Voces polifónicas
Voces polifónicas: itinerarios de los géneros y las sexualidades es el producto de un conjunto de investigaciones desarrolladas en el marco del Proyecto UBACYT S409 de la Carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, dirigido por María Alicia Gutiérrez. Lo compone una diversidad de investigaciones que desarrollan múltiples miradas centradas en las nociones de género, sexualidad y poder en un contexto histórico-político de enunciación semejante. Las voces polifónicas sonaron como voces cruzadas, mezcladas y heterogéneas que evocaron recorridos y formaciones distintas y posibilitaron el diálogo y el intercambio. Si bien es...
Poder menstruar
El sistema patriarcal heteronormativo nos enseñó, con sus diversas prácticas sociales, que los cuerpos menstruantes valíamos menos, para poder así ser desvalorizados, domesticados, medicados, cosificados y acallados. Nos arrebataron los conocimientos ancestrales en torno a la menstruación. Se nos enseñó a vivir con un tiempo cronológico lineal, que es muy diferente al tiempo del ciclo menstrual. Se despreció a los yuyos y otras hierbas de nuestra Madre Tierra, que menguan nuestros dolores y amplían nuestra consciencia. ¡Hasta la Luna nos sacaron! Es tiempo ya de PODER poner nuestra menstruación donde merece. Porque saber es PODER y para ello necesitamos hablar y en voz muy alta desde un enfoque biológico fisiológico, psicológico, ancestral, sociológico, económico y ecológico. Es necesario analizarlo con una mirada transversal desde un enfoque de derechos humanos, perspectiva de género y políticas públicas. Es necesario para que menstruar vuelva a ser un PODER único en nuestra especie, y que merezca ser disfrutado por su maravillosidad. Y que nos dejen PODER menstruar sin vergüenza ni tabúes em PODER ando, con ello, al cuerpo menstruante. Se va a caer.
Desafíos de género en la educación, cultura y sociedad: un análisis multidimensional
El feminismo es el movimiento social que busca la igualdad de derechos entre hombres y mujeres. Pero también es la idea radical, como afirmó Ángela Davis, que sostiene que las mujeres son también personas, una evidencia que no está asumida ante los continuos delitos de violencia que siguen sufriendo las mujeres por el hecho de serlo. A día de hoy, la reflexión de Davis adquiere una actualidad lacerante. El feminismo se erigió como una barrera que intentó frenar las injusticias, los abusos y los privilegios de los varones, por el hecho de haber nacido varones. A lo largo de la historia, el feminismo ha ido abriendo mentes; ha transformado las relaciones de dominio que ejercían y ejercen muchos hombres contra las mujeres y, ha provocado la promulgación de leyes para protegerlas.
